Radishchev Art Museum
The Radishchev Art Museum in Saratov opened to the public on June 29, 1885. It is supposed to have been Russia's first major public art museum outside Moscow or St. Petersburg. It was founded by Alexey Bogolyubov and named after his grandfather, the 18th-century revolutionary writer Alexander Radishchev. The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission. It was the first art museum in Russia open to everybody. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
 Radishchev Art Museum summer view | |
| Established | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Location |  Russia, Saratov, Radishcheva, 39 |
| Website | radmuseumart.ru |
It includes work by Camille Corot, Auguste Rodin, Ivan Kramskoy, Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Fyodor Vasilyev, Aleksandra Ekster, Pavel Kuznetsov, Aristarkh Lentulov, Robert Falk, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Martiros Saryan, Fyodor Rokotov and others. Early donors included Pavel Tretyakov and Pauline Viardot.[1][2][3]
During the Great Patriotic War, future Director of the Belarusian National Art Museum, Alena Aladava, worked there.[4]
References
- Saratov Region History Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2007-08-06
- Doctorow, Larisa, Varied Provincial Pleasures on the Volga, Moscow Times, 2002-09-13, Issue 2522, Page VII. Retrieved 2007-08-06
- Museum web site Archived 2007-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2007-08-06
- Hasselmann, Anne E. (2022-02-28). Wie der Krieg ins Museum kam: Akteure der Erinnerung in Moskau, Minsk und Tscheljabinsk, 1941-1956 (in German). transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8394-5980-5.